Meta has launched its Twitter competitor. Here's how it might work out.

[Kyle]

Meta's (META) answer to Twitter, called Threads, officially launched on Wednesday.

The Threads app, which will be linked to Instagram, will seek to capitalize on Twitter's vulnerabilities under owner and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk.

Twitter has been in increasingly dire straits since Musk's takeover. Though Twitter has had its fair share of problems before, the last few months have been especially trying. The company has increasingly lost the trust of advertisers as users contemplate leaving the platform altogether.

Some forecasts have suggested that tens of millions have and will continue to flee Twitter in the aftermath of Musk's acquisition of the company last October. Within the two years following Musk's buyout of Twitter, it's estimated that more than 30 million users will leave the platform, per Insider Intelligence.

Meta has launched its Twitter competitor. Here's how it might work out.

Meta's answer to Twitter, called Threads, launched on Wednesday.

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[glhs837]

Meta's (META) answer to Twitter, called Threads, officially launched on Wednesday.

The Threads app, which will be linked to Instagram, will seek to capitalize on Twitter's vulnerabilities under owner and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk.

Twitter has been in increasingly dire straits since Musk's takeover. Though Twitter has had its fair share of problems before, the last few months have been especially trying. The company has increasingly lost the trust of advertisers as users contemplate leaving the platform altogether.

Some forecasts have suggested that tens of millions have and will continue to flee Twitter in the aftermath of Musk's acquisition of the company last October. Within the two years following Musk's buyout of Twitter, it's estimated that more than 30 million users will leave the platform, per Insider Intelligence.

Meta has launched its Twitter competitor. Here's how it might work out.

Meta's answer to Twitter, called Threads, launched on Wednesday.

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Yep, lets see if we can generate a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Lets see if the same folks who made headlines by "stress testing" twitter following the buyout do the same to Threads.

 

[spr1975wshs]

it's estimated that more than 30 million users will leave the platform

I wonder how many of those are bots which have been and will be taken down?

 

[herb749]

I wonder how many of those are bots which have been and will be taken down?

Twitter removed a bunch of bots. Now this new place will be flooded with them.

 

[Hijinx]

The liberals need a crying room.

 

[GURPS]

“Wow, 30 million sign ups as of this morning. Feels like the beginning of something special, but we’ve got a lot of work ahead to build out the app,” Zuckerberg posted on Threads Thursday morning.

Threads is likely to be Twitter’s most serious competitor yet. The platform features tweet-style posts, and users can comment on others’ Threads posts, just like on Twitter.

Zuckerberg tweeted for the first time in over a decade to launch a playful missive at Elon Musk on Twitter, tweeting a meme of two matching Spidermans pointing at each other.

Zuckerberg Says Instagram Threads Has 30 Million Sign Ups

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that his new Twitter competitor, Instagram’s Threads, attracted a whopping 30 million sign-ups in its first 24 hours. Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, launched Threads Wednesday night. Threads went live on Apple and...

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[SamSpade]

Sorry, but Threads will have to be BETTER. And I don't think these guys grasp that concept yet. You make a competitive product to an established one - it has to be BETTER, or people won't come.

Admittedly - Twitter's main draw is that famous people post there. If they remain, what will be the point?

 

[GURPS]

Sorry, but Threads will have to be BETTER.

Threads WILL Be Better for progressives, curated and censored of right leaning opinions that offend progressives

right leaning comments will be labeled racist, homophobic, disinformation, anti science

 

[GURPS]

Admittedly - Twitter's main draw is that famous people post there. If they remain, what will be the point?

A bunch of the hollyweird types [ liberals ] announced jumping over to Threads ... also Threads is TIED To your Instagram account, so anyone who might want to be on threads has to sign up for Instagram ... Meta maybe bragging about 30 million sign ups, what Meta is NOT saying is how many were NEW Instagram sign ups as well

 

[herb749]

Threads WILL Be Better for progressives, curated and censored of right leaning opinions that offend progressives

right leaning comments will be labeled racist, homophobic, disinformation, anti science

When Twitter was run by left leaning people Zuckerberg didn't care to compete. Now this new site will be controlled by those left leaning Twiiter posters.

 

[spr1975wshs]

I do have an Instagram account, have posted perhaps 35 or 40 times in 10 years.
Will not be Threaded.

 

[herb749]

I do have an Instagram account, have posted perhaps 35 or 40 times in 10 years.
Will not be Threaded.

Some writer for the NYT was complaining that if you want to start a Thread account you have to delete all your instagram messages.

 

[Hijinx]

Who gives a red rats ass how it works?

 

[vraiblonde]

Admittedly - Twitter's main draw is that famous people post there. If they remain, what will be the point?

And they will remain because the whole idea of posting on social media is for people to see it. What Zuckerberg's thing will have to do is pay celebrities to make a bunch of posts with naked pics so the stans will flock to hang on their every word.

 

[SamSpade]

And they will remain because the whole idea of posting on social media is for people to see it. What Zuckerberg's thing will have to do is pay celebrities to make a bunch of posts with naked pics so the stans will flock to hang on their every word.

I sure wouldn't put it past him to pay them or find some inducement to pull them from Twitter.